Just installed Google Gears. Now Firefox starts, eats 700MB of memory, and crashes. Hmm. Well, it didn’t do that at home…
It’s possible the new company retirement age is set a touch too high. http://twitpic.com/8uapv
Now that’s some interesting diversification. Just got email from Borders advertisisng their new dating service…
Working for a medical company can be odd. Office move approaching, just debated where we should keep our skeleton now we won’t have a closet
Password cache expiry time (n): the number of days after you change a password during which you use the old one every time you try to log in
Strange gardening practves are afoot in Rownham Mead http://twitpic.com/8qq07
There’s rain hammering down just outside this window. Wonder if it’ll have stopped before I have to go to work?
Ooops! Forgot to do my music homework. Time for some quick research before bed.
Much as I didn’t want to miss that phone call, at least I now know that Spinvox is definitely working on my new phone.
Mmmeatballs! http://twitpic.com/8onvj
@mistymaria Now remember, dear, a watched inbox never pings.
Eventually, my house will be completely full of blue IKEA bags. And on that day, maybe I’ll remember to take one to IKEA when I go. Maybe.
@Pockless I just don’t gay what you mean…
@rabidbee That was, luckily, what I assumed :)
Heh. “get” so healthy even. This Freudian slip was brought to you by the iPhone keyboard and the number 69.
Hmm. Vegan sandwich with a bottle of Purdeys. When did I gay so healthy?
Lots to do this weekend. So I’m going to take a long bath and a morning off, so I can be more relaxed and cheery when I get round to it ;)
@tsunimee Ah, proper improv. It’s amazing how cheap and MacGuyvered-together the kit is for the most fantastic-looking photos :)
@tsunimee Stand more still?
@hayles Oh, probably.
Oh, so it’s _Tim Henman_ doing the commentary, is it? I thought it was a strange career move for Jack Dee.
Help! IKEA are Rickrolling me!
Reassuring: my government know more about me than any other organisation on the planet, but they still start letters “Dear Sir/Madam.”
So, the government can’t send me a Swine Flu leaflet, but they can send me a PAYE employer’s pack with CD for a company I closed 6 years ago
My plan of wearing a loud summery shirt to induce sunshine finally appears to be paying off.
@ahnlak Although am now a clearly-biased owner ;)
@ahnlak the voice-control could be handy for some people, too. Seems to work okay.
@ahnlak having used both, I’d say speed, a half-decent camera and the compass (great for viewing maps; auto-aligns with the real world!)
@mistymaria get your data in multiple columns, insert pivot table, play with drag & drop, make nice graph. Job done.
@scottejames ooh… It Tweets! Morning dear.
Morning off! Yay! Mostly so I can have a lazy morning and take Pete and Emily off to catch their bus to Glastonbury.
@missmcq well, you’re coming via Bristol. You could always steal a canoe while you’re here…
Back from my penultimate songwriting lesson and trying to put the lounge back together in time for my guests tomorrow night.
Trying out MapCard, as mentioned by @undermanager. http://twitpic.com/86agg
Oh, now that’s lovely. http://cli.gs/uVd6HP (custom-built replacement wooden case for old iPod)
@paulahillier hey, you. Ups and downs. Need six months off and a bit of therapy, but other than that… you?
Damn you, Apple, why do you make your remotes so small? I’m going to have to strain my posessions through a sieve to find that bloody thing.
Now all I need is an iPhone app that turns the 3GS into a remote barcode scanner for Delicious Library
@Phooto Difficult? Of course, I can’t comment, because having set the challenge I’ve not had time to try it myself :( Ah well…
This flooring guy doesn’t hang around http://tinyurl.com/mhmhyb
So, have another day off. But a day off limited to my bedroom while a guy uses a circular saw in the hall. This could be a long day.
@chrismarquardt Will do some investigations :) Bear in mind I only got my iPhone on Friday, though!
@chrismarquardt Could at least get something interesting (but read-only) quite quickly. Would be a start…
@chrismarquardt But I have some interesting “quick hack up” ideas involving iCal & Google Calendar’s “publish to RSS” features.
@chrismarquardt Okay. Looks like reason there’s not one for the iPhone is that the iCal interface isn’t exposed to the API. Grr
@chrismarquardt ah, okay, so maybe start from the question, “what would iCal’s Year View look like, if it had one?”, yes?
@hayles no, because my TV is currently in a different room from my aerial connection :(. Will have to iPlayer it tomorrow…
@chrismarquardt what would a good year planner app look like? (in 140 characters or less :))
Watching more of David Malan’s E75 course.
@hayles I have so much to do today I’m glad I can’t get into my lounge to turn that on!
@hasbean Goodness. How did you manage that?
@bananza It was probably Xerox PARC. They invented everything else.
God, I love Sleater Kinney. So glad I got to see them live before they split.
@hayles I might try Monday, if I have time. Weekdays should be better, and I might be able to sneak out during the day.
Holy crap. Queue for Banksy is insane. http://twitpic.com/7w5x3
Ah, “convenience” cashpoints. ‘The charge for this service is £1.85. To accept the charge, turn around and bend over.’
Off to check out the Bristol Maker’s Showcase at the Grain Barge
Lounge is wonderfully exhoey with new floor. Keep sticking my head in and singing. Would record a song in there if I had time.
@Juggzy so, very difficult to diagnose Bristol Uni students, then :)
@TheLloydClan yup! Although not at my place, as lounge floor still just wet concrete screed!
Hmm. So, if eight students at Bristol Uni have been diagnosed with Swine Flu so far, what are the chances of it not having already spread?
Impressed with how much cooler the magnetic compass on the 3GS makes map navigation. #iphone
Back from shopping. Time for a chilled afternoon.
Screed Guy turned up at 8:30 and was done by 10am! http://tinyurl.com/ntg4hh Bonus day off!
(Luckily without getting my apostrophe’s in the wrong place’s, like I just did there… Typo, honest…)
Oooh! Got my email published in this months’ .net mag!
Today is my Friday. Off tomorrow to supervise lounge floor being re-screeded. Hopefully this will mean giving bloke keys and heading to …
@hayles Which is why I’m thinking of doing it; I’d not have bothered last time. But tomorrow the success:queueing ratio should be better.
So, should I do something productive with my day tomorrow? Or should I go and try to buy an iPhone?
Yay. My four-day weekend starts with this month’s copy of .net magazine waiting on the doormat for me. Kewl.
Free from the desk job for four whole days! Huzzah!
@Bookwalter Ah, the curse of the time-rats. Sounds like a Doctor Who story…
@talkie_tim @DrHairbear Or, as I like to refer to it, ‘my waking hours’
Mind you, no matter what the rationale, it’s still annoying that OSX Firefox and Safari put the tab close button in different places!
Looks the same on XP, too. It makes a certain kind of sense — on OSX, a window’s close button is on the left; on Windows it’s on the right.
@AndyCarolan Odd indeed. I’m running the latest Safari 4 on OS X. You?
@AndyCarolan Well, I’m pretty sure… http://twitpic.com/7lr36
Why did the Safari designers put the “close tab” box at the opposite end of the tab from the Firefox designers? It’s a UI conspiracy…
@hayles As an interviewer, I’d consider it a little odd, yes. A notepad, fine, but to write stuff down, not to read from…
Intimidated by the number of tools my sash window guy has left lying around. I don’t own three saws, let alone three saws _just for wood_…
@bertpalmer Oooh, no, actually I was just counting the tags. Actually, I have 2094 bookmarks. Really must prune those soon!
Bloody hell. First Demon lose my ADSL for half a day, now it looks like 123-reg have lost my domain’s nameservers…
@senate014 Ah, so it’s not just me having DNS problems with 123-reg names, then?
@bertpalmer Mostly because I don’t have clear-out often enough, admittedly, but yes: http://delicious.com/got…
@bertpalmer @pjakobs Wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t asking me to confirm _each_ sync conflict for all 1,777 bookmarks…
@pjakobs It probably doesn’t help that I’m also trying to sync with Delicious and across Windows and Mac with Firefox and Safari.
Hmm. So far, xmarks appears to be a way of generating hundreds of sync errors for not apparent gain.
Cool. My sash window guy has turned up bang on time and is already beavering away.
@Nose_in_a_book Disaster! How will you drink tea if you’ve waterproofed your mouth?
@Squonk It was down for most (if not all) users from the early hours until gone 11…
@ahnlak It was probably my fault. Same thing happened _last_ time I bought a new ADSL router, too.
Good. My Demon ADSL is back up. My strategy of going to the tip & then shopping in the hope that it would just get fixed worked well.
@Nose_in_a_book Braver than me. Name of the Rose is one of the few books I’ve ever given up on.
@hayles Gah. You had to say the ‘c’ word while I was out shopping, didn’t you?
Oh, so it was Evernote that was making Safari 4 hang. Thought it was odd that the final release was far less stable than the beta.
@hayles Well done, you!
…and the preview video makes it look pretty fantastic: http://www.banksy.co.uk/…
Oh, so _that’s_ why the museum was closed the other day. It’s all Banksy’s fault: http://cli.gs/V0sUE2
RT @sween: My iPhone just auto-corrected “auto-correct” with “Now I’m just fucking with you”.
@mattgemmell Won’t we have to travel at 88 tweets per hour for that, though? #unclearontheconcept
@AndyCarolan Only one: Windows 7.
You have to walk through Queen Square quickly in the summer, lest you get high on secondary skunk smoke.
@simonashley Well, I wouldn’t fault you on the SQL Server. But…
Cake! Nomnomnom.
@brownstudies Yup. Was a good venue for her, too (the Cube, all seated & packed with attentive people.)
Gig last night was good (Diane Cluck & Mary Hampton, with support from some friends of mine.) But I didn’t sleep well afterwards. Ugh.
Don’t know what the main act is like tonight, but the stage preparations are a copper-bodied resonator guitar and a chair. Good sign, for me
In the garden at the Cube, chatting to musicians
New blog post: Why Toodledo’s Downtime Isn’t Bothering Me http://cli.gs/4Wrb8h
@Narshada It’s Rackspace who host Toodledo; maybe your troubles are further fallout from last night’s storm,,.
#toodledo still down, but I don’t count this as a #cloud failure. Will only be a cloud failure if they have no backup, ma.gnolia style…
@MelKirk We bought Hetty for the communal stairs at our flats last month :)
@goatgirl74 No problems here #firefoxisfine
@dktom …It’s how I got my huge todo list into Toodledo from neptunehq in the first place.
@dktom No, am hardcore geek so take an XML dump of my data. In emergency, can transform it into any other format fairly easily. #toodledo
@KaveyF Sure they will. Plus, one of my reasons for choosing Toodledo was that there was an easy way to do my own backups. Arse == covered.
Oops! My to-do list just went south: http://www.toodledo.com/
Wonder what they’re filming in Bristol Museum?
@sean_robbins Oh, absolutely. Make it a general rule: if a machine doesn’t work, it’s because a human has misunderstood a human.
@sean_robbins Yes. Especially in your line. Most everything wrong with any computer system stems from a human misunderstanding a human.
@hayles Reminds me of my student lifestyle.
@hayles You need to get that handle changed for a round knob. No point trying to change the binmen.
Amazed how much of the business world still runs on faxes and manila folders.
@hayles I’ve been in there three or four times; never felt it would be worth the investment of time to get anything out of it.
So, my Vodafone contract is up next month and I can get my PAC code from Monday. If only there was some nice new phone on the market…
RT @hotdogsladies: 2009 #WWDC LIVEBLOG
1 sec ago: You have everything you need to make something right now.
[⌘-R to update]
Have now noticed second street in Bristol with firework shop next to funeral director. Am I missing some cultural thing?
@brownstudies Complaint Logger Of Great Stamina has a better acronym :)
@Whatleydude You still use paper? :)
@ahnlak It just makes you wonder how many people _tried_ using camera rucksacks as life-saving equipment before they put the labels on….
I’m with @hayles on this: It is a bit of a struggle to get up this morning.
Strange things to find written on a new purchase: “CAUTION! The mattress is not a life-saving device.”
@bexxi I’ve seen people ask not to be awarded all those glittery awards graphics; maybe this is just an extension of that…
Have just painted all the doorframes in the hallway. Now wondering how many seconds it will be before I forget this and go grab a doorframe.
Taking a break between photo processing and decorating to read more of Mark Steel’s _What’s Going On_. Laugh-out-loud funny!
Must stop taking photos of this Boston Tea Party latte before it goes cold. Not often here with proper camera.
Just back from Pants in the Park. Good fun. Only just remembered to remove Superman-style pants before going to Argos.
http://twitpic.com/6relc - CrummmmmMmmmble.
@KaveyF Yum!
Rhubarb crumble is in the oven. This is all @KaveyF’s fault for mentioning it. http://tinyurl.com/nw75m3
Cleaning skirting board. It doesn’t get much more glamorous than this. Unfortunately.
@hayles Or go have something dangerous in Hotel Chocolat’s little cafe instead!
@hayles Starbucks and Costa both seem stupidly busy most daytimes I’ve been there. The Costa might be worth a try, though.
Just coming back from CREATE Centre. Tried juggling, but drew line at invitation to build fairy house.
http://twitpic.com/6qjec - Dejecting things to see in your OSX Dashboard, #361
Morning all! Lovely weather. Think I’ll go soak in a nice long bath and see whether it’s nicer outside when I’m done.
Love the way the council has laid fresh dead grass to replace the old dead grass along the edge of Queen Square.
@KaveyF Ketchup? :)
Goodness. Software Update just found about ten new Apple updates.
@KaveyF Can you tell that this week’s songwriting lesson concentrated on metaphor?
Off to t’flickrmeet, via polling station.
@Nomme1 Yes, but the free version of it is annoyingly limiting, and we can’t afford the paying version :(
Using Java apps is swimming through treacle. Using Oracle SQL Developer is swimming through shark-infested treacle that someone’s weed in.
Damn, you #Google, for Chrome I had to justify reading a cartoon at work; for Wave it’s a video. Can’t you just _write_ _stuff_ _down_?
@hayles By smothering the speaker?
@WilHarris Carpet? Luxury! When I were a lad we had to sit on the coal! etc. etc…
What is it with girls and these huge sunglasses? Since when was ‘looking like a bug’ the in thing?
Bwa-ha-ha. Have finally convinced a Greasemonkey script that removes fscking LoudTwitter entries from my LiveJournal friends page to work.
Watching some #kamikazecookery (kamikazecookery live > http://ustre.am/3er6)
@sean_robbins Except without the honesty and political integrity.
@kamikazecookery Hey, fellas, put a link to your site from your Twitter profile!
Writing some advertising copy for the iPhone App Store.
@hayles *bows*
@paulahillier And now I’ve had sleep and feel better and am *still* craving sugar. Argh!
@hayles What noise does an exploding monkey make? Baboon!
Having massive sugar cravings today. Gah. Must be tired.
@njj4 Just roll with it! Power cuts are great socialising events in computer-heavy environments!
@hayles The Atlantic’s a big place :(
@hayles Well, I didn’t like it when I tried it. But that may have been due to different reasons.